Case Against Cuomo ‘Very Solid,’ Sheriff Says of Move to File Complaint
The New York Times
The district attorney has not committed to prosecuting the former governor, and experts called the sheriff’s decision to proceed independently unusual.
The accumulating of evidence began more than two months ago, as investigators at the Albany County Sheriff’s Office scrutinized cellphone and flight records, testimony and hundreds of pages of documents.
The investigation, into allegations lodged against then-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo by a woman on his staff who accused him of groping her breast at the Executive Mansion, was supposed to culminate this week, the sheriff, Craig Apple, said.
A criminal complaint charging Mr. Cuomo with a misdemeanor sex crime was filed by one of Sheriff Apple’s investigators in Albany City Court on Thursday. The court typically takes several days to process such paperwork, Sheriff Apple said, and he planned to use that time to alert local prosecutors, and Mr. Cuomo’s lawyers, about the complaint.
